Synopsis:
Ashkân, a young conscript, is sent to a far distant frontier where he lives alone to complete his military service.
Fearing solitude he wanders to and fro and meets a young woman, Rojin, who apparently lives alone in the same area and is also seeking human contact.
Little by little as their relationship with develops, Rojin’s often contradictory behaviour leads Ashkân to question whether she really exists or is just a figment of the hallucinations from which he previously suffered.
Ashkân is thus beset by an inner conflict in which reality and illusion oppose one another.

Director’s statement:
It’s always been my aim to make a movie about loneliness and its effects on people. However, it’s not always possible to show these effects in movies with a leitmotif of suspense as they can easily be sidelined.
I wanted to make a movie about the inner pain caused by loneliness and found it much easier to do so by means of a character whose mental state only accentuated it.
It may be considered uninteresting to penetrate the mental labyrinth of someone with psychological problems without keeping to a perceptible storyline. Such was the style that Boileau-Narcejac employed to portray their psychotic characters. Yet it is truly a lonely world that the mentally disordered inhabit every day.
Despite the lack of an entertaining story if, in the real world, one single person reaches out to the lonely after having watched this movie, I will have achieved my goal.